Hi, As anyone on this list ever considered or implemented a "meta" ibverbs device that could do HCA load balancing and/or data striping ? Or even include it into the native drivers ?
Today, most of the MPIs that work with OFED 1.2 (including ours, Scali MPI Connect) implement HCA load balancing and data striping in the MPI transport layer. Wouldn't it be better if this was implemented on a more generic layer so that other applications could benefit from the same technology as well ? These days when the number of cores per SMP machines are increasing dramatically with quad core processors available, it is quite common for a lot of the system integrators to include more than 1 HCA in the system to balance out the IO, no ? Comments and thoughts appreciated :) Cheers, Steffen Persvold _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ewg
